The man was shot in the face and neck area in the 3700 block of Manchester Avenue in the Central Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore about 9:30 p.m., police said. He was in critical condition at a hospital Sunday night.

In earlier incidents police said were unrelated to St. Patrick's Day festivities, a man was fatally stabbed at the entrance of the city's emergency shelter in the 600 block of the Fallsway on Sunday morning, and a man was fatally shot later that morning in the 1800 block of Ruxton Avenue.

A 31-year-old man who was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Baltimore after he pleaded guilty to possessing 5.9 grams of marijuana won an appeal Wednesday invalidating the plea — raising the possibility that he will be released.